Time passed and Sam began to implement his plan, squats, push-ups and all possible exercises, regularly checking the corridor, collecting information.

The next day, he found out that people had appeared who raised another level, apparently it was necessary to kill 10 zombies. At this point, he has already killed five. Exercise had no effect, as expected.

It also turned out that in order to get a piece of spirit from a zombie after a kill, you need to be no further than two meters from the killed zombie.

This was great news. The army, or simply the owners of the firearms, will at least carry out the shooting almost point-blank, this will still give them an advantage, but rather limited, there is no need to talk about the owners of explosives and the like.

The zombies were not very fast, and did not overcome obstacles well, so Sam concluded that he would be relatively safe even in his porch.

First of all, he wanted to find something that could open doors in other apartments, then using the same trick with a rope it would be possible to clean out zombies. But there were no such tools at home, so for now he decided to try to clear the porch and try to use this tactic at the exit from the entrance.

As usual, he opened his apartment door and began to create noise, within 30 minutes only 1 zombie was lured, apparently the survivors were in no hurry to open the doors and go out, and the dead were locked in apartments.

Just in case, Sam slowly walked through all the floors, making a noise beforehand, only three apartments turned out to be open.

In the same way he carefully checked the apartments one after another, it was scary, but in the end he never found anyone, only traces of blood, apparently it was blood of the residents of these apartments. Perhaps doors were open because they were trying to leave their flats or something like that.

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In one of the apartments, he found an ax and a crowbar and moved them to his own apartment, he also decided to replenish supplies.

During one of the walks, he heard someone calling him from one of apartments, but he was not going to answer or help anyone, so he just ignored it, fortunately this person did not have the heart to open the door.

Going down to the first floor, he tied a rope to the iron door of the entrance and began hunting, killing four zombies, he felt that he had raised the level. The spirit automatically increased by one point, it was also possible to distribute two more free characteristics somewhere.

He put it off until later and continued to create noise, an hour later he killed 24 more zombies, they essentially filled the door with bodies almost to his waist, the stench was terrible and the sight of the zombie was frankly nauseous.

It took quite a long time to fiddle around before he managed to somehow close the front door, after which Sam returned home tired both physically and mentally.

There were not so many zombies, apparently not so many people were able to escape from their apartments outside, and those who did succeed, most likely ran away and at the same time carried away most of the zombies.

After eating and resting, Sam decided to try open the neighboring apartment with his tire iron, the job was not easy, fortunately his neighbors were as poor as himself, so the doors were so-so.

Immediately after the opening, he ran into his own apartment and, following the scheme, began to cut down neighbors one by one, in total he counted as many as five zombies. It is not surprising that he regularly heard neighbors disputes through the wall.

After removing the corpses from the door of his apartment, he began to follow the same scheme, of course he chose only miserable doors, if the door looked reliable, then he did not even try to open it.

All this took a lot of time and effort, but so far the priority was in his own safety and not speed. Until the evening he managed to kill 12 more zombies, after which Sam was too tired, so he returned home to rest.

He continued to use the same scheme for 2 more days, and finally raised the next level, he already knew that he needed to kill about hundred zombies. Apparently, each level requires 10 times more soul particles than the previous one.

This means that he will not be able to jump over buildings and break trees with his fist in the nearest future, for example, to raise the 10th level he will have to kill a billion zombies, it is obvious that this is simply impossible, most likely the zombies will gradually become stronger and give more soul particles or something like that.